I hope you appreciate me “taking one for the team” this morning, Null and Void — I opened up “Dreams of My Father” to pull these two quotes from the book (I feel the need to take a shower to get the grime off me now — yuck):
“If so, they (his grandparents) miscalculated not only my mother’s quiet determination but also the sway of their own emotions. First the baby arrived, eight pounds, two ounces, with ten toes and ten fingers and hungry for food. What in the heck were they supposed to do?”
"I discovered this article, folded away among my birth certificate and old vaccination forms, when I was in high school. It’s a short piece, with a photograph of him. No mention is made of my mother or me, and I’m left to wonder whether the omission was intentional on my father’s part, in anticipation of his long departure. Perhaps the reporter failed to ask personal questions, intimidated by my father’s imperious manner; or perhaps it was an editorial decision, not part of the simple story that they were looking for. I wonder, too, whether the omission caused a fight between my parents."
Thanks for the weight info. I googled “How much did Obama weigh when he was born?” and the results were definitely not 8 lbs. 2ozs. Instead google placed such things as how Jr has so much weighing on his mind, and his statements about Jessica Simpson having a weight problem. Guess I couldn’t expect more from Google!